Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wujiu gathered more than a hundred captured Flame Clan members and confronted their leader, Yan Jin, declaring his intent to wage war. The chapter ended as Xiao Wujiu stood ready to fight the assembled clan.

• Xiao Wujiu frightened Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi, then removed the barrier as Heavenly Demon Puppets arrived with captured Flame Clan members and elders.
• Xiao Wujiu identified several captives' Heavenly Flames, including the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, the Mysterious Yellow Flame, the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Flame, and the Volcano Stone Flame.
• Yan Jin arrived with the Flame Clan's reinforcements and demanded that Xiao Wujiu release Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi in exchange for a fight.
• Xiao Wujiu revealed his middle-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng cultivation, mocked Yan Jin over the Flame Clan's past attack on the Xiao Tribe, and dismissed his demands.
• Xiao Wujiu faced the assembled Flame Clan and declared, "Gentlemen, I crave war."

Xiao Wujiu declared war on the Emperor Clans, slaughtered the Flame Clan captives, and fought Yan Jin before escaping an ambush through the Gate of Transmigration. Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yao Dan, and Hun Tiandi gathered in the Flame Realm, leaving the confrontation with Xiao Wujiu unresolved.

• Xiao Wujiu declared war on the Emperor Clans, killed the Flame Clan captives with his Heavenly Demon Puppets, and collected their souls and four Heavenly Flames.
• Yan Jin attacked Xiao Wujiu, who caught his punch and kicked him into a pit, prompting Yan Jin to unleash his power and rise to peak Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Wujiu countered Yan Jin's Meteor Fire Profound Finger with a fire lotus, then sensed powerful arrivals and escaped through the Gate of Transmigration.
• Lei Ying, Yao Dan, and Gu Yuan arrived with Hun Tiandi as reinforcements, and Gu Yuan dispersed Xiao Wujiu's fire lotus while Yan Jin warned them that Xiao Wujiu had reached mid-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

Hun Tiandi returned to the battlefield looking normal, but Gu Yuan and Xiao Wujiu sensed that something was wrong with him. Xiao Wujiu suspected Hun Tiandi had been influenced by the Dou Di Resentment, and the chapter ended with him declaring war on the five remaining Emperor Clans.

• Hun Tiandi appeared before Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Yao Dan, prompting Gu Yuan to grow more wary of him.
• Xiao Wujiu probed Hun Tiandi and found that his soul's depths were concealed, leading him to suspect that Hun Tiandi had awakened Lin Langtian's script and gained help from the Dou Di Resentment.
• Hun Tiandi noticed Xiao Wujiu and confirmed that he was still himself, then guessed Xiao Wujiu had come for the Flame Clan's Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Wujiu said his main purpose was to declare war on the five remaining Emperor Clans after eliminating the Stone Clan and the Spirit Clan.
• Yan Jin challenged Xiao Wujiu, who mocked his earlier retreat and taunted him to keep his defiant attitude when they fought.

Xiao Wujiu confronted the Emperor Clan chiefs in the Flame Realm, accusing Gu Yuan of cautious double-dealing and warning that the Emperor Clans’ era was ending. He left to prepare for a breakthrough, while Lei Ying felt increasingly unable to control the course of events.

• Xiao Wujiu provoked Yan Jin and Yao Dan, warning Yao Dan that the Yao Clan could become his next target.
• Gu Yuan tried to invoke his past friendship with Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Wujiu denounced him and explained how he had preserved options with both the Xiao Tribe and the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Yuan erupted when Xiao Wujiu called him cautious, and Xiao Wujiu taunted Hun Tiandi before declaring that he would avenge Hun Tiandi’s palm strike.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he was called the Evil Emperor and threatened to kill Xiao Wujiu, who memorized the name and warned that their conflict would end in clan extermination.
• Xiao Wujiu told Gu Yuan that caution would bring both his success and failure, then left the Flame Realm to prepare for a breakthrough as Lei Ying’s unease grew.

Xiao Wujiu seized the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Turtle Spirit Earth Flame from the Yao Realm, then returned to Ancient Dragon Island to prepare for an attack by the Emperor Clans. Zhu Kun recognized the Evil Emperor as an ancient Dou Di whose search for something had brought suffering to the continent.

• After Hun Tiandi and Yao Dan left the Flame Realm, Gu Yuan departed, leaving Yan Jin and Lei Ying to reflect on how old grudges had persisted for a thousand years.
• Xiao Wujiu arrived in the Yao Realm and found the Heavenly Demon Puppet carrying the unconscious Yao Xingji and Yao Tian, who possessed the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.
• Xiao Wujiu rebuked the Ghost for maiming the two men too severely, then returned to Ancient Dragon Island with the Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Wujiu inspected Ancient Dragon Island's battle preparations and anticipated that the Emperor Clans would attack while he absorbed the Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Wujiu told Zhu Kun that the Evil Emperor inhabited Hun Tiandi and had once appeared in the Bodhi Ancient Tree's memories as Mumu.
• Zhu Kun explained that the Evil Emperor had been a dazzling genius whose temperament changed after becoming a Dou Di, leading him to plunge the continent into suffering while searching for something.

Evil Emperor explained that the Dou Di golden age had been engineered to send newly crowned emperors to the upper realm as cannon fodder, and that heaven's mandate had been used up. He believed Xiao Wujiu was an extraordinary existence who overshadowed the newly returned heaven's mandate, then proposed a plan for Hun Tiandi to gain temporary Dou Di-level strength.

• Evil Emperor told Hun Tiandi that heaven's mandate described people favored by the heavens, and that many emperors in his era had shared unusually smooth paths to power.
• Evil Emperor said he discovered the upper realm had manufactured the golden age to send emperors away, and that his attempt to seize heaven's mandate led to him being hunted by another Dou Di.
• Evil Emperor sensed that heaven's mandate had returned but concluded Xiao Wujiu was not its bearer and might be an even more valuable, inscrutable existence.
• Evil Emperor offered to help Hun Tiandi imitate Xiao Xuan and temporarily wield Dou Di-level strength using Dou Di bloodline and Emperor Realm Soul power.
• Hun Tiandi proposed using the souls and bloodlines of the five great Emperor Clans and the Descendant People, and Evil Emperor approved of his plan.

Xiao Yan accepted that he would face the coming war, and his strength rose to Six-Star Dou Sheng. As the Five-Clan Allied Forces surrounded Ancient Dragon Island, its defenders activated Xiao Wujiu’s formation and blocked the attackers outside.

• After days of weighing his ties to Xiao Wujiu and the Xiao Tribe’s past, Xiao Yan decided not to avoid the war and broke through to Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Ancient Dragon Island trembled as the Five-Clan Allied Forces launched an attack, prompting Xiao Yan and Yao Chen to rush to the island’s center.
• Zhu Kun activated Xiao Wujiu’s defensive array, with Mumu, Xiao Li, and the other experts joining the island’s formation.
• Hun Tiandi’s proposal brought Descendant People and combined-attack formations to help the five Emperor Clans surround Ancient Dragon Island.
• Yan Jin’s flaming palm failed to break the array, and he turned to Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan for a response.

The Evil Emperor persuaded the Five-Clan Allied Forces to prepare a layered combined-strike formation to attack Ancient Dragon Island, while secretly planning to use the assault to advance his own scheme. He began preparing corrosive black energy and hinted that the Heavenly Mandate was on the island.

• Lei Ying suspected Hun Tiandi had brought the Soul Clan's Descendant People for a hidden purpose, but kept his doubts to himself.
• Gu Yuan assessed Ancient Dragon Island's defensive formation, while Yan Jin and Yao Dan urged the allied forces to attack Xiao Wujiu quickly.
• The Evil Emperor proposed corroding the formation from within and having the clans combine their forces into a layered formation; Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yao Dan, and Yan Jin agreed.
• The Evil Emperor told Hun Tiandi that Xiao Wujiu was not on Ancient Dragon Island and that the plan would exploit the allied forces' predictable response.
• The Evil Emperor dismissed Nihility Devouring Flame as a disposable guard against the Thunder Clan and began gathering corrosive black energy using Hun Tiandi's Battle Qi.
• The Evil Emperor recognized the energy around the formation and said that the Heavenly Mandate was there.

Xiao Wujiu arrived in the Ancient Realm after breaking through to late-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng, the Divine Palace Realm, and a body as strong as Zhu Kun, then entered the Heavenly Tomb to find Xiao Xuan. He subdued the Tomb’s Soul and punched Xiao Xuan before revealing that the Xiao Tribe had become the Xiao Clan and its people were dead.

• The Evil Emperor began spreading black energy around Ancient Dragon Island while the allied Emperor Clan forces formed an attack array, intending to seize destiny and capture Xiao Wujiu.
• Xiao Wujiu’s Heavenly Flames refinement had brought him to late-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng, the Divine Palace Realm, and physical strength on par with Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Wujiu entered the Ancient Realm and headed into the Heavenly Tomb to take Xiao Xuan away.
• Xiao Wujiu seized the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb with his Di Realm soul power and trapped it in a barrier.
• Xiao Wujiu found Xiao Xuan on the Heavenly Tomb’s third layer and punched him into the wall before introducing himself as the Xiao Clan’s current leader and calling him to account for the dead Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Xuan stared at Xiao Wujiu in disbelief when he heard what had become of the Xiao Tribe, though Xiao Wujiu’s bloodline confirmed their kinship.

Xiao Wujiu revealed how the Xiao Tribe had fallen to Xiao Xuan and recruited him to fight for its later generations. After transporting Xiao Xuan from the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Wujiu captured Nihility Devouring Flame outside Ancient Dragon Island.

• Xiao Wujiu told Xiao Xuan that the Xiao Tribe had declined into the Xiao Clan and its surviving bloodline had been driven to the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Wujiu accused Xiao Xuan of trusting Gu Yuan's deception and warned that the Emperor Clans had united to wipe out the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to fight for the Xiao Tribe, and Xiao Wujiu used the Yongzhen Array to transfer the Heavenly Tomb before taking them through the Gate of Transmigration.
• Xiao Wujiu appeared behind Nihility Devouring Flame outside Ancient Dragon Island and subdued him despite the Child Flames surrounding the island.
• Xiao Wujiu imprisoned Nihility Devouring Flame in a space in his hand, and a voice behind him remarked on the intelligent Heavenly Flame.

The Evil Emperor and the five great Emperor Clans attacked Ancient Dragon Island, only for Xiao Wujiu to emerge from seclusion and ambush the alliance. As the armies clashed and the Emperor Clan ancestors appeared, Xiao Wujiu prepared to face the top combatants himself.

• The Evil Emperor began corroding Ancient Dragon Island's formation while Zhu Kun's forces secretly switched to a backup energy source and prepared their counterattack.
• When the formation broke, Xiao Wujiu appeared and killed Gu Zhen with an invisible force before Gu Zhen could warn the alliance.
• The Evil Emperor ordered the alliance to attack, and the Emperor Clan forces charged Ancient Dragon Island while Xiao Li and Mumu led its defenders.
• Yan Jin, Yao Dan, Lei Ying, Gu Lie, and Hun Xuzi began forming arrays to awaken their ancestors, while Zhu Kun joined Xiao Wujiu.
• The ancestors of the five great Emperor Clans materialized around the island, with the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan ancestors reaching peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng strength.

Xiao Wujiu faced the Emperor Clan’s overwhelming force until he summoned the seven remaining ancient masters, reversing the battle’s balance. With Gu Yuan and the Evil Emperor shaken by their arrival, Xiao Wujiu asked who now held the advantage.

• Gu Xuner celebrated Xiao Wujiu’s encirclement as Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, and the Evil Emperor gathered six Nine-Star Dou Sheng fighters against him and Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Wujiu checked that Xiao Yan was slaughtering Ancient Clan members on Ancient Dragon Island, then dismissed Gu Xuner’s taunts and questioned whether his enemies truly held the advantage.
• Xiao Wujiu called for his allies, and seven ancient masters emerged from the void to aid him.
• Gu Yuan and the Evil Emperor reacted with disbelief as the seven masters’ arrival left the Emperor Clan’s side in a precarious position.
• Xiao Wujiu reassured Zhu Kun and asked Gu Yuan who held the advantage now.

Seven Ancient Masters joined Xiao Wujiu’s side, trapping the Emperor Clan forces on Ancient Dragon Island as the battle intensified. The Evil Emperor revealed that he had activated the Blood-Thirst Soul-Annihilation Array, which drained the cultivation of those caught in the combined formations.

• The Seven Ancient Masters appeared and overwhelmed the Emperor Clan forces with their auras, leaving Gu Yuan alarmed.
• The Evil Emperor secretly urged Gu Yuan to hold off the enemy while he prepared a plan, and Gu Yuan attacked Xiao Wujiu.
• Zhu Kun intercepted Gu Yuan, while the Ancient Clan fighters engaged the Seven Ancient Masters; the Master of Space sealed the area around Ancient Dragon Island.
• The Evil Emperor recognized that Xiao Wujiu, Ying Huanhuan, and the Master of Life and Death were from another world, and Xiao Wujiu questioned him about other worlds and Dou Di ascension.
• The Master of Life and Death attacked the Evil Emperor, who caught her deathly-energy arrow and activated the Blood-Thirst Soul-Annihilation Array.
• The array drained cultivation from the Emperor Clan members in its formations, and Mumu ordered his allies to kill them.

The Evil Emperor used a secret art to convert the lives and power of the Emperor Clans’ people into temporary Dou Di-level strength, seemingly becoming an emperor by an alternative path. He challenged Xiao Wujiu and the others to face him as his aura rose above that of a Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Chen attacked a Dou Zun of the Ancient Clan, but the array drained nearby Emperor Clan members into corpses that crumbled to dust.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Qingyang noticed the slaughter and turned their attention toward the array’s culprit.
• The Evil Emperor revealed that he was converting Battle Qi, bloodlines, flesh, and souls into temporary Dou Di-level energy, while dismissing Hun Tiandi as a suppressed pawn.
• Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Yao Dan condemned the Evil Emperor as their clansmen and Descendant People were consumed by the array.
• The Evil Emperor completed the conversion and confronted Xiao Wujiu, claiming that no one could challenge his emperor-level power.

Xiao Wujiu revealed his hidden power and confronted the Evil Emperor, using the Ancestral Talismans to counter his attacks and land a devastating punch. He trapped the Evil Emperor in a spatial crater, then realized their battle could destroy Ancient Dragon Island.

• Xiao Wujiu stopped the Evil Emperor’s attack with the Ink Sword, revealing his Divine Palace Realm Rune Master strength.
• The Evil Emperor transformed into his younger true appearance, formed black armor, and charged Xiao Wujiu with a Coiled Dragon Halberd.
• Xiao Wujiu summoned eight Runes and used the Dark and Devouring Ancestral Symbols to swallow the Evil Emperor’s attack and slow him.
• Xiao Wujiu struck the Evil Emperor with a lightning-and-fire-infused punch, sending him flying backward.
• Xiao Wujiu used the Spatial Ancestral Talisman to smash the Evil Emperor into a crater in space and recognized that their fight threatened Ancient Dragon Island.

Xiao Wujiu took the Evil Emperor from Ancient Dragon Island to the Central Plains to fight without endangering the others. When the Evil Emperor absorbed Hun Tiandi’s Emperor Realm Soul and neared the strength of a true Dou Di, Xiao Wujiu unleashed his full power and prepared to face him.

• Xiao Wujiu asked Zhu Kun and his allies to finish the battle on Ancient Dragon Island, gave Ying Huanhuan the Great Desolation Monument, and told her to bring Xiao Xuan to meet Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Wujiu bound the Evil Emperor with six Creation Cauldrons, opened a spatial passage, and dragged him from Ancient Dragon Island to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Wujiu struck the Evil Emperor through his armor and sent him crashing into a deep pit.
• Hun Tiandi’s voice emerged from the pit as he revealed that the Evil Emperor had been refining him, before the Evil Emperor’s aura surged toward that of a true Dou Di.
• Xiao Wujiu unleashed his ten Divine Rings, Eight Great Ancestral Talismans, Yongzhen Array, and Ink Sword, then challenged the Evil Emperor to a decisive fight.

Xiao Wujiu used his formation, spatial abilities, and Ancestral Talismans to overwhelm the Evil Emperor while containing the battle’s destruction. The Evil Emperor revealed a blood-forged blade and charged again, as Xiao Wujiu calmly prepared to face him.

• The Evil Emperor reinforced his armor and attacked Xiao Wujiu, who blocked him with the Creation Cauldron and retaliated with spatial strikes.
• Xiao Wujiu teleported behind the Evil Emperor, overcame his defense, and kicked him away before pursuing with Myriad Fire Annihilation.
• Xiao Wujiu activated the Yongzhen Array and unleashed a combined assault of Heavenly Flames, while keeping the flames from ravaging the continent.
• The attack shattered the Evil Emperor’s armor and left him badly wounded, so he formed the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Evil Blade using blood he had collected.
• Xiao Wujiu suppressed the blade’s aura with the eight Ancestral Talismans and invited the Evil Emperor to attack, confident he could defeat him.

Xiao Xuan appeared on Ancient Dragon Island and confronted Gu Yuan over the Xiao Tribe’s decline. Gu Yuan lost his composure and admitted that jealousy drove him to keep the tribe weak.

• As the Emperor Clans struggled against their outnumbering enemies, Xiao Xuan appeared before Gu Yuan on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Gu Yuan recognized Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Chen joyfully greeted his long-lost elder brother.
• Xiao Xuan questioned Gu Yuan about how the Xiao Tribe had declined until a single Da Dou Shi was its strongest member.
• Gu Yuan erupted in anger and admitted he resented Xiao Xuan’s talent and support, insisting the Xiao Tribe deserved to fall after losing its Emperor Bloodline.

Xiao Xuan confronted Gu Yuan over his resentment and apologized to the Xiao Tribe for his failures, placing hope in Xiao Wujiu as its new leader. Meanwhile, Xiao Wujiu gained the upper hand against the Evil Emperor and asked what a “Heaven’s Mandate” was, learning they were people destined to be used as expendable material.

• Xiao Xuan told Gu Yuan that his fixation on the five strongest experts had blinded him to the value of the moderate path.
• Xiao Xuan asked Ying Huanhuan and her companions to seek justice for the Xiao Tribe, and the Master of Life and Death agreed to handle matters properly.
• Xiao Xuan bowed to the Xiao Tribe and apologized for failing to protect its members, then expressed hope in Xiao Wujiu as its new clan leader.
• Xiao Wujiu trapped the Evil Emperor in the formation, pierced his arm with the Ink Sword, and asked him what a “Heaven’s Mandate” was.
• The Evil Emperor explained that Heaven’s Mandates were people swept along toward a fate in which they served as expendable material.

Evil Emperor learned that Xiao Wujiu could travel between worlds and concluded he had not lost to destiny, then burned his body and remnant soul to regain Dou Di power for one final battle. Xiao Wujiu withstood his assault, and the chapter ended as he caught Evil Emperor’s weakening punch and Evil Emperor insisted he had not lost.

• Evil Emperor explained destiny to Xiao Wujiu, who considered whether the Douqi Continent had a similar will serving the Great Thousand World.
• Evil Emperor deduced that Xiao Wujiu and the newly arrived powerhouses came from other worlds and asked whether Xiao Wujiu could travel between them.
• Xiao Wujiu did not deny the deduction, and Evil Emperor laughed, declaring that he had not lost to destiny.
• Evil Emperor broke free by burning his body and remnant soul to regain Dou Di power, while Xiao Wujiu strengthened the Yongzhen Array and prepared to fight.
• Evil Emperor attacked Xiao Wujiu with corrosive punches, but his body and Soul Power steadily weakened as Xiao Wujiu endured the onslaught.
• Xiao Wujiu caught Evil Emperor’s final punch, and Evil Emperor said that he had not lost.